Junot Diaz Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

• If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

  Junot Diaz

  Growing Up, Judging, Grows

  "Wildwood" by Junot Díaz, www.newyorker.com. June 11, 2007.

• Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

  Junot Diaz

  Growing Up, Nerd, Use

• I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.

  Junot Diaz

  Dream, New York, Growing Up

  "Junot Díaz Aims to Fulfill His Dream of Publishing Sci-Fi Novel With Monstro". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy", www.wired.com. October 3, 2012.

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